Newsletter- July 2013

Newsletter- July 2013

Dear Friends The July 2013 issue of our newsletter is up on our website.  Well this is really a March to July 2013 issue (reasons in the newsletter), and it summarizes the blog posts of all these months, (conveniently linking to the respective posts). We share our developments in these months, this blog being one of them.  Happy Reading! Vasumathi Sriganesh                        
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Event: MBBS Students of DY Patil Medical College, Navi Mumbai – on Public Health Challenges

Event: MBBS Students of DY Patil Medical College, Navi Mumbai – on Public Health Challenges

Networking with students and recent graduates (Yes - Social Networking being a predominant part) sometimes "takes me places". I recently got introduced to Anita Kumar who is a III MBBS Student at the Dr DY Patil Medical College, Navi Mumbai. She invited me for an event that she and her colleagues organized today at the college. The team - "The Student Scientific Committee" in collaboration with the Dept of Community Medicine, presented a program "Public Health Challenges: Young Minds at Work" I had no clue what it was about, and Anita had  not given me details.  And it happened to…
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Back from vacation & one month later

Back from vacation & one month later

Hello friends In case you got sick of reading my "Away on vacation" and wondered if I had extended it, the answer to that is "No". I did return on the 1st of June but was jet lagged and a bit unwell for a couple of weeks. We then got deeply involved in an exhibition planning (Lakshmi has written about that) and a whole lot of other things! Just to keep you updated with what is to come: We are working hard at creating training modules which we can adapt for E-Learning, Skype based teaching and for Training of Trainers.…
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